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 |
|---|---|
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| thrifty | given to or marked by economy and good management |
| averse | having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste |
| potentate | ruler |
| surpass | to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed |
| casual | subject to, resulting from, or occurring by chance |
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| 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 |
| bovine | of, relating to, or resembling bovines and especially the ox or cow |
| estranged | having lost former closeness and affection : in a state of alienation from a previous close or familial relationship |