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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| unwitting | not knowing : unaware |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| conscientious | meticulous |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| submissive | submitting to others |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |