GRE Word List
PROPRIETY
the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness
The meaning of the word propriety is the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recipient | one that receives : receiver |
| fraudulent | characterized by, based on, or done by fraud : deceitful |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| sly | wise in practical affairs |
| raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| gorge | a narrow passage through land |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| slight | having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body |