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).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| epaulet | something that ornaments or protects the shoulder: such as |
| premonitory | giving warning |
| noisome | noxious |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |