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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WordMeaning
accoutreto provide with equipment or furnishings : outfit
onomatopoeiathe naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss)
addenduma thing added : addition
chimericalexisting only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary
humdrummonotonous
interrogateto question formally and systematically
overthrowoverturn
defileto make unclean or impure: such as
statutoryof or relating to statutes
elysiumthe abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology