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 |
|---|---|
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| paramour | lover |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| knave | a tricky deceitful fellow |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| retrench | cut down |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |