GRE Word List
USAGE
firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure
The meaning of the word usage is firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| velocity | quickness of motion : speed |