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 |
|---|---|
| saline | consisting of or containing salt |
| firebrand | a piece of burning wood |
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| consort | associate |
| illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |