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 |
|---|---|
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| smear | a viscous or sticky substance |
| lottery | a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |