GRE Word List
PUTATIVE
commonly accepted or supposed
The meaning of the word putative is commonly accepted or supposed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| increment | the amount or degree by which something changes |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| zealot | a zealous person |
| perimeter | the boundary of a closed plane figure |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |