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 |
|---|---|
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| whittle | a large knife |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| aspire | to seek to attain or accomplish a particular goal |
| arraign | to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| fluctuate | to shift back and forth uncertainly |
| smart | having or showing a high degree of mental ability : intelligent |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |