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 |
|---|---|
| gastronomy | the art or science of good eating |
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |
| menagerie | a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| disjointed | being thrown out of orderly function |
| decollete | wearing a strapless or low-necked dress |
| forebears | ancestor |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |