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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| potentate | ruler |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| reputed | having a good repute : reputable |
| verve | the spirit and enthusiasm animating artistic composition or performance : vivacity |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| disjointed | being thrown out of orderly function |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| demolition | the act of demolishing |