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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congenial | pleasant |
discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is but one God |
inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |
riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
fugitive | running away or intending flight |
boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |