GRE Word List
INCONGRUITY
the quality or state of being incongruous
The meaning of the word incongruity is the quality or state of being incongruous.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| rivulet | a small stream |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| desperate | having lost hope |