GRE Word List
PUTATIVE
commonly accepted or supposed
The meaning of the word putative is commonly accepted or supposed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| recipient | one that receives : receiver |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| virus | any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| perceptive | responsive to sensory stimuli : discerning |