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 |
|---|---|
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| rigor | harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity |
| saturate | to satisfy fully : satiate |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| unfeigned | not feigned or hypocritical : genuine |