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 |
|---|---|
| impinge | encroach |
| guise | a form or style of dress : costume |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| doddering | feeble |
| artless | lacking art, knowledge, or skill : uncultured |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| draft | the act of drawing or pulling in a net |
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| entrance | power or permission to enter : admission |