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 |
|---|---|
| supernumerary | exceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number |
| resolution | the act or process of resolving: such as |
| flirt | to move erratically : flit |
| conduit | a natural or artificial channel through which something (such as a fluid) is conveyed |
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |
| satellite | a celestial body orbiting another of larger size |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |