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 |
|---|---|
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| braggart | a loud arrogant boaster |
| balm | a balsamic (see balsamic |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| grudge | to be unwilling to give or admit : give or allow reluctantly or resentfully |