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 |
|---|---|
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| cistern | an artificial reservoir (such as an underground tank) for storing liquids and especially water (such as rainwater) |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| homogeneous | of the same or a similar kind or nature |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| tinge | a slight staining or suffusing shade or color |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |