GRE Word List
PORTLY
dignified
The meaning of the word portly is dignified.
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| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| homely | suggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
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| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |