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 |
|---|---|
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| vent | to provide with a vent |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |