GRE Word List
PROCLIVITY
an inclination or predisposition toward something
The meaning of the word proclivity is an inclination or predisposition toward something.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |
| outfit | the act of fitting out or equipping (as for a voyage or expedition) |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| 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 |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| sectarian | of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian |