GRE Word List
DECOROUS
marked by propriety and good taste : correct
The meaning of the word decorous is marked by propriety and good taste : correct.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| teetotalism | the principle or practice of complete abstinence from alcoholic drinks |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| leave-taking | departure |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| kindred | of a similar nature or character : like |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |