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 |
|---|---|
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| fulcrum | prop |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| adversary | one that contends with, opposes, or resists : an enemy or opponent |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| rickety | affected with rickets |