GRE Word List
PURPORTED
reputed
The meaning of the word purported is reputed.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| pulmonary | of, relating to, affecting, or occurring in the lungs |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| turmoil | a state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion |
| condiments | something used to enhance the flavor of food |
| forthcoming | being about to appear or to be produced or made available |
| 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 |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |