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 |
|---|---|
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |