GRE Word List
COMITY
friendly social atmosphere : social harmony
The meaning of the word comity is friendly social atmosphere : social harmony.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| impromptu | made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment : improvised |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
| inequity | injustice |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |