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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| plumber | a dealer or worker in lead |
| haven | harbor |
| satirical | of, relating to, or constituting satire |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |