GRE Word List

DECORUM

literary and dramatic propriety : fitness

The meaning of the word decorum is literary and dramatic propriety : fitness.

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ingenuousshowing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
retainto keep in possession or use
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lampoonsatire
consistencyagreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence
peddleto travel about with wares for sale
idlenot occupied or employed: such as
demoniacpossessed or influenced by a demon
debonairsuave
bitinghaving the power to bite