GRE Word List
GENERIC
relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general
The meaning of the word generic is relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| resurge | to undergo a resurgence |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| orient | to direct (something, such as a book or film) toward the interests of a particular group |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |