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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WordMeaning
galleona heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish
infernalof or relating to a nether world of the dead
dissipateto break up and drive off
egotismexcessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun
daisa raised platform (as in a hall or large room)
surveillanceclose watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective)
almssomething (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor
insinuateto impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply
inasmuch_assince; owing to the fact that
carillona set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard