GRE Word List
PORTLY
dignified
The meaning of the word portly is dignified.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forebears | ancestor |
| inflated | distended with air or gas |
| fluster | to put into a state of agitated confusion : upset |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| adjacent | not distant : nearby |
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |