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 |
|---|---|
| insomnia | prolonged and usually abnormal inability to get enough sleep especially due to trouble falling asleep or staying asleep |
| inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| novelty | something new or unusual |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |