GRE Word List
FORMALITY
compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony
The meaning of the word formality is compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| renegade | a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another |
| supernumerary | exceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number |
| bouillon | a clear seasoned soup made usually from lean beef |
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| symmetry | balanced proportions |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |