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.
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| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
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| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| 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 |
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