GRE Word List
PURPORT
to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred)
The meaning of the word purport is to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| illuminate | to supply or brighten with light |
| entrepreneur | one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise |
| reckon | count |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |