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 |
|---|---|
| desperate | having lost hope |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| infidel | one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| malady | a disease or disorder of the animal body |
| encompass | include |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |