GRE Word List
PROPENSITY
an often intense natural inclination or preference
The meaning of the word propensity is an often intense natural inclination or preference.
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|---|---|
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
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| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |