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 |
|---|---|
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| debutante | one making a debut (see debut |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| appurtenances | accessory objects |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |