Definitions
Etymologies
- purport + -ed (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Fisher describes the union's offer as a bailout to cover what he labelled "purported losses" by the league that have "never been proven.”
“The country McCain purported to put first has a more difficult path due to his ambition.”
“Indian head $2.50, $5.00 and $10 denominations and, of course, the coins purported to have been fished up from the Gulf of Mexico.”
NCS Conserves Coins Recovered from the Steamship New York : Coin Collecting News
“TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Prosecutors in Honduras say a decomposed, bullet-riddled body found near the border with Nicaragua has been identified as the purported leader of a shadowy Nicaraguan resistance group.”
“Fact is, Solenska is very flirtatious with her students ( "the handsome Antoine," she calls her purported young beau).”
“Thus, the story is not necessarily what was in the lead paragraph, namely the purported news that the offensive is not immediately bearing fruit.”
“Rather, the complaints argue against an unprecedented expansion of the interstate commerce power: namely the purported power to force an individual to purchase a product he does not want to purchase, and an unprecedented use the tax code to punish someone for choosing not to purchase a product.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Democratic Strategist misdescribes some legal issues
“It's hard for me to buy the "freedom of speech" premise when the Focus on the Family spot comes with a price tag purported to be between $2.4 million and $2.8 million.”
The Huffington Post: Marcia G. Yerman: The Super Bowl Slippery Slope: Advertising and Free Speech
“TEMPLE-RASTON: Well, according to the criminal complaint, they are described as purported to be American, or naturalized Americans.”
“The message posted under Shapps 'name purported to come from a Lib Dem activist and said that the Liberal Democrats had no chance of winning.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 567 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1834 more...
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generationnext's Words
petulant, vehement, pensive, lascivious, vacillate, histrionic, satiated, svelte, lithe, zeitgeist, viscous, sommelier and 526 more...
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teeter, headlong, reprobate, canard, ersatz, prevaricate, trenchant, minatory, fatuous, stultify, vitiate, fulminate and 135 more...
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Reading Random
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delinquency, modicum, dissuade, incendiary, destitute, lachrymose, plight, ruse, empirical, pedantic, demography, giggle and 444 more...
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DEF's list
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obfuscate, harbinger, morose, meniscus, conspicuous, grandiose, cogitated, matron, erudite, oness, apothegms, assuage and 475 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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thricedotted's Words
schadenfreude, vanquish, calumny, obsequious, rhapsody, expostulate, promontory, bordello, quintessence, catharsis, recapitulation, myriad and 937 more...
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Go over
mollify, obstinate, obviate, occlude, onerous, obscure, paragon, pedantic, perfunctory, placate, placid, prodigal and 364 more...
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"Words, words, words."
abase, abject, abstruse, adjutant, altercation, altruistic, angst, anodyne, anomie, ape, apprehensive, aquiline and 310 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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simpering, tenebrous, lugubrious, locution, cavalcade, mansuetude, bremsstrahlung, foofaraw, legerdemain, concinnity, soporific, alacrity and 97 more...
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Norman Lewis
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ebullient, eccentric, eclectic, edify, efface, effusion, egalitarian, egocentric, egoist, egregious, elicit, elliptical and 907 more...
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legacy of ashes
epochal, totalitarian, global, eggheads, ivy league eggheads, second-story men, christian soldiers, titular, caudillos, comity, bifurcating, inchoate and 68 more...
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