GRE Word List
NICETY
the quality or state of being nice
The meaning of the word nicety is the quality or state of being nice.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| guy | man |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| gape | to open the mouth wide |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| potpourri | a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices that is usually kept in a jar and used for scent |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |