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 |
|---|---|
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| handsome | having a pleasing and usually impressive or dignified appearance |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| 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 |
| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |
| diverge | to move or extend in different directions from a common point : draw apart |
| atheistic | a person who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods : one who subscribes to or advocates atheism |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |