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 |
|---|---|
| engender | beget |
| dislodge | to drive from a position of hiding, defense, or advantage |
| malediction | curse |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |
| quench | put out |
| increment | the amount or degree by which something changes |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| mime | an ancient dramatic entertainment representing scenes from life usually in a ridiculous manner |
