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 |
|---|---|
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| ostensible | intended for display : open to view |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |
| cogitate | to ponder or meditate on usually intently |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |