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 |
|---|---|
| ingenious | having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving |
| flutter | to flap the wings rapidly |
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| unwitting | not knowing : unaware |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| trappings | outward signs |