GRE Word List
PUTATIVE
commonly accepted or supposed
The meaning of the word putative is commonly accepted or supposed.
Random words
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mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
pungent | sharply painful |
smug | highly self-satisfied |
sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |