GRE Word List
OUTMODED
not being in style
The meaning of the word outmoded is not being in style.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| impoverish | to make poor |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |