GRE Word List
PUTATIVE
commonly accepted or supposed
The meaning of the word putative is commonly accepted or supposed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |
| hapless | having no luck : unfortunate |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |