GRE Word List
PROPINQUITY
nearness of blood : kinship
The meaning of the word propinquity is nearness of blood : kinship.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| exasperate | to cause irritation or annoyance to |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| iota | an infinitesimal amount : jot |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |