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 |
|---|---|
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| query | question |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| clairvoyant | having clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |