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 |
|---|---|
| coy | marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness |
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| stamina | the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| resilient | characterized or marked by resilience: such as |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| affidavit | a sworn statement in writing made especially under oath or on affirmation (see affirmation |