GRE Word List
PURPORTED
reputed
The meaning of the word purported is reputed.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tinge | a slight staining or suffusing shade or color |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| rue | to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| august | marked by majestic dignity or grandeur |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |