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 |
|---|---|
| slovenly | untidy especially in personal appearance |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |