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 |
|---|---|
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| prestige | standing or estimation in the eyes of people : weight or credit in general opinion |
| equity | justice according to natural law or right |
| ensconce | shelter |