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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| loll | to hang loosely or laxly : droop |
| buoyant | having buoyancy |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| brink | edge |