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 |
|---|---|
| reek | smoke |
| deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| mystic | mystical |
| tenant | one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another |
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |