GRE Word List
OBSOLETE
no longer in use or no longer useful
The meaning of the word obsolete is no longer in use or no longer useful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defect | an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function, or utility : shortcoming |
| devious | wandering |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| benison | blessing |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| grisly | inspiring horror or intense fear |
| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |