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 |
|---|---|
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |
| erudite | having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying : possessing or displaying erudition |
| saline | consisting of or containing salt |
| entourage | one's attendants or associates |
| welter | writhe |
| finale | the close or termination of something: such as |
| indefatigable | incapable of being fatigued : untiring |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |