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 |
|---|---|
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| wry | twist |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| idle | not occupied or employed: such as |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |