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.
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disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |
beatitude | a state of utmost bliss |
hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |
fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
brevity | shortness of duration |
draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
provenance | origin |
chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |