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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |