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 |
|---|---|
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| collate | to compare critically |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |