GRE Word List
COMITY
friendly social atmosphere : social harmony
The meaning of the word comity is friendly social atmosphere : social harmony.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| skim | to clear (a liquid) of scum or floating substance |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| stem | the main trunk of a plant |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |
| affiliation | the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc. |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| arroyo | a watercourse (such as a creek) in an arid region |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |