GRE Word List
PUTATIVE
commonly accepted or supposed
The meaning of the word putative is commonly accepted or supposed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| aloof | removed or distant either physically or emotionally |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| clamor | noisy shouting |
| weather | the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness |
| implication | something implied: such as |
| drivel | nonsense |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |