GRE Word List
PORTLY
dignified
The meaning of the word portly is dignified.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| actuary | clerk |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |
| imperious | marked by arrogant assurance : domineering |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |