GRE Word List
PORTLY
dignified
The meaning of the word portly is dignified.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| primp | to dress, adorn, or arrange in a careful or finicky manner |
| rousing | giving rise to excitement : stirring |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| seclusion | the act of secluding : the condition of being secluded |