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 |
|---|---|
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| touching | capable of arousing emotions of tenderness or compassion |
| uproarious | marked by uproar |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |