GRE Word List
PUTATIVE
commonly accepted or supposed
The meaning of the word putative is commonly accepted or supposed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| incognito | with one's identity concealed |
| shambles | a meat market |
| inane | lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly |
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
| subpoena | a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure |