GRE Word List
PROBITY
adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness
The meaning of the word probity is adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ramble | to move aimlessly from place to place |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| fervent | very hot : glowing |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |