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 |
|---|---|
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| reimburse | to pay back to someone : repay |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
| countenance | look |