GRE Word List
FASHION
the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time
The meaning of the word fashion is the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time.
Random words
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plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
touchstone | a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis |
amity | friendship |
maculated | marked with spots : blotched |
fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
consecrate | dedicated to a sacred purpose |
derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
exhort | to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly |
irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |