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 |
|---|---|
| swill | wash |
| spatial | relating to, occupying, or having the character of space |
| unkempt | not combed |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| galley | a ship or boat propelled solely or chiefly by oars: such as |
| astute | having or showing shrewdness and an ability to notice and understand things clearly : mentally sharp or clever |