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 |
|---|---|
| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| peerless | matchless |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| mellifluous | having a smooth rich flow |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| carat | a unit of fineness for gold equal to ¹/₂₄ part of pure gold in an alloy |