GRE Word List
PORTLY
dignified
The meaning of the word portly is dignified.
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rigor | harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity |
blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement |
inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |
kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |