GRE Word List
PORTLY
dignified
The meaning of the word portly is dignified.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| abject | sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe |
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |