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 |
|---|---|
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |