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 |
|---|---|
| appreciate | to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| forlorn | bereft |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |