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 |
|---|---|
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
| succor | relief |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |
| imprecation | curse |
| aplomb | complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise |
| douse | to plunge into water |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| chaplain | a clergyman in charge of a chapel |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |