GRE Word List
OUTMODED
not being in style
The meaning of the word outmoded is not being in style.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |
| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| desperate | having lost hope |