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 |
|---|---|
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
| remnant | a usually small part, member, or trace remaining |
| herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |
| jurisprudence | the science or philosophy of law |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| camaraderie | a spirit of friendly good-fellowship |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |