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 |
|---|---|
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| predilection | an established preference for something |
| expose | to deprive of shelter, protection, or care : subject to risk from a harmful action or condition |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| spruce | to make spruce |
| jibe | to be in accord : agree |
| jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
| outgoing | going away : departing |