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 |
|---|---|
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| dialectical | of, relating to, or in accordance with dialectic |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| savant | a person of learning |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |