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 |
|---|---|
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| invincible | incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued |
| nether | situated down or below : lower |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| fervent | very hot : glowing |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |