GRE Word List
PUTATIVE
commonly accepted or supposed
The meaning of the word putative is commonly accepted or supposed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| collaborate | to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor |