GRE Word List
VOGUE
popular acceptation or favor : popularity
The meaning of the word vogue is popular acceptation or favor : popularity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| belittle | to speak slightingly of : disparage |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |