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 |
|---|---|
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| plump | to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily |
| indubitable | too evident to be doubted : unquestionable |
| primordial | first created or developed : primeval |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| cadaverous | of or relating to a corpse |
| 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 |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |