GRE Word List
PREVALENT
generally or widely accepted, practiced, or favored : widespread
The meaning of the word prevalent is generally or widely accepted, practiced, or favored : widespread.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| delusion | something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| venison | the edible flesh of a game animal and especially a deer |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |