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 |
|---|---|
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| repertoire | a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform |
| hoard | a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |