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 |
|---|---|
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| plait | pleat |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| osseous | bony |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| revelry | noisy partying or merrymaking |
| mutinous | disposed to or being in a state of mutiny : rebellious |