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 |
|---|---|
| centurion | an officer commanding a Roman century |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| 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) |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| entree | the act or manner of entering : entrance |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |