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 |
|---|---|
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| misogynist | a person who hates or discriminates against women : a misogynistic person |
| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| purported | reputed |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |