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
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turbulence | the quality or state of being turbulent: such as |
afterlife | an existence after death |
eddy | a current of water or air running contrary to the main current |
innate | existing in, belonging to, or determined by factors present in an individual from birth : native |
poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
rostrum | an ancient Roman platform for public orators |
forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
bask | to lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere |
chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |