GRE Word List
PUTATIVE
commonly accepted or supposed
The meaning of the word putative is commonly accepted or supposed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| resign | relegate |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |