GRE Word List
MORES
the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group
The meaning of the word mores is the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| flaccid | not firm or stiff |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |
| benefit | something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
| slander | to utter slander against : defame |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |