Vocabulary Word
Word: purported
Definition: alleged; claimed; reputed or rumored; Ex. purported Satanists
Definition: alleged; claimed; reputed or rumored; Ex. purported Satanists
Sentences Containing 'purported'
The Doctor occupied two floors of a large stiff house, where several callings purported to be pursued by day, but whereof little was audible any day, and which was shunned by all of them at night.
More Vocab Words
::: embargo - ban on commerce or other activity::: apprehensive - fearful; discerning
::: nascent - incipient; coming into being or existence; Ex. nascent ability in music
::: bucolic - rustic; pastoral
::: expostulation - protest; remonstrance; reasoning with someone to correct or dissuade; V. expostulate
::: sequester - isolate; segregate; seclude; retire from public life
::: flair - talent
::: supplicant - one who supplicates; ADJ.
::: mealymouthed - indirect in speech (when something unpleasant must be said); hypocritical; evasive
::: trepidation - fear; nervous apprehension
