GRE Word List
CONVENTIONAL
formed by agreement or compact
The meaning of the word conventional is formed by agreement or compact.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dogged | marked by stubborn determination |
| dazzle | to lose clear vision especially from looking at bright light |
| brocade | a rich silk fabric with raised patterns in gold and silver |
| proletarian | a member of the proletariat |
| bard | a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| clavicle | a bone of the shoulder girdle typically serving to link the scapula and sternum |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| evoke | to call forth or up: such as |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |