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 |
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roue | a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake |
imbue | endow |
vulgar | lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste : coarse |
purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
pedagogy | the art, science, or profession of teaching |
inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
unassuming | not assuming : modest |