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 |
|---|---|
| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| conflagration | fire |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |