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 |
|---|---|
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| touchstone | a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| haunt | to visit often : frequent |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| nimble | quick and light in motion : agile |