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).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nomadic | of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads |
| benefactor | someone or something that provides help or an advantage : one that confers a benefit |
| clip | encompass |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |