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 |
|---|---|
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| impertinent | given to or characterized by insolent rudeness |
| ominous | being or exhibiting an omen : portentous |
| ken | the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |