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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barristera counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor
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pillorya device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked
trenchantkeen
patronizeto act as patron of : provide aid or support for
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filibusteran irregular military adventurer
willfulobstinately and often perversely self-willed
earthyof, relating to, or consisting of earth