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 |
|---|---|
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| enthrall | to hold spellbound : charm |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| chaotic | marked by chaos or being in a state of chaos : completely confused or disordered |
| sybarite | voluptuary |