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 |
|---|---|
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| fritter | a small mass of fried or sautéed batter often containing fruit or meat |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| title | the distinguishing name of a written, printed, or filmed production |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |