GRE Word List

PIETY

the quality or state of being pious: such as

The meaning of the word piety is the quality or state of being pious: such as.

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grotesquea style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature
impassea predicament affording no obvious escape
notcha V-shaped indentation
desultorymarked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose
proprietythe quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness
excerpta passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract
enterprisea project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky
bulwarka solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart
vacuousemptied of or lacking content
witherto become dry and sapless