GRE Word List
DECORUM
literary and dramatic propriety : fitness
The meaning of the word decorum is literary and dramatic propriety : fitness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| blithe | lacking due thought or consideration : casual |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| blare | to sound loud and strident |
| militate | to have weight or effect |