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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bulk | magnitude |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| percussion | the act of percussing: such as |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
| dominant | commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others |
| matriculate | to enroll as a member of a body and especially of a college or university |
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |