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 |
|---|---|
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| warranted | sanction |
| consensus | general agreement : unanimity |