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 |
|---|---|
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| ape | any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| natation | the action or art of swimming |