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 |
|---|---|
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| ample | generous or more than adequate in size, scope, or capacity |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| flaccid | not firm or stiff |
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| causal | expressing or indicating cause : causative |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |