GRE Word List
IMPROPRIETY
an improper or indecorous act or remark
The meaning of the word impropriety is an improper or indecorous act or remark.
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gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
unequivocal | leaving no doubt : clear |
flush | to fly away suddenly |
devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
constraint | the act of constraining |
authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
maritime | of, relating to, or bordering on the sea |
infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |