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 |
|---|---|
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| enduring | lasting |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| headlong | headfirst |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| absolute | free from imperfection : perfect |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |