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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Word | Meaning |
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hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
maternal | of, relating to, belonging to, or characteristic of a mother : motherly |
carefree | free from care: such as |
rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |
defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
expound | to set forth : state |
adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
unseemly | not seemly: such as |
primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |