GRE Word List
PUTATIVE
commonly accepted or supposed
The meaning of the word putative is commonly accepted or supposed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| fleck | streak |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| paradigm | example |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |