GRE Word List
PORTLY
dignified
The meaning of the word portly is dignified.
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| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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