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 |
|---|---|
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| brackish | somewhat salty |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| ubiquitous | existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : widespread |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| dilapidated | decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |