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 |
|---|---|
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| acoustics | a science that deals with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| agog | full of intense interest or excitement : eager |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |