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 |
|---|---|
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| ingenious | having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving |
| benefactor | someone or something that provides help or an advantage : one that confers a benefit |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |