GRE Word List
PUTATIVE
commonly accepted or supposed
The meaning of the word putative is commonly accepted or supposed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| nebula | any of numerous clouds of gas or dust in interstellar space |
| vigilant | alertly watchful especially to avoid danger |
| postulate | demand |
| menagerie | a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| dys- | abnormal |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |