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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|---|---|
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
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| expatriate | banish |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| catechism | oral instruction |
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