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 |
|---|---|
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| oculist | ophthalmologist |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| autocratic | of, relating to, or being an autocracy : absolute |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| loll | to hang loosely or laxly : droop |