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 |
|---|---|
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| wrest | to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| libel | a written statement in which a plaintiff in certain courts sets forth the cause of action or the relief sought |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |