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.

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WordMeaning
ingenuousshowing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
vitiateto make faulty or defective : impair
aquilinecurving like an eagle's beak
repugnancethe quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent
inverseopposite in order, nature, or effect
quadrupedan animal having four feet
smeara viscous or sticky substance
lotterya drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance
frescothe art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments
pulsethe regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart