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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| query | question |
| dolt | a stupid person |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |