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 |
|---|---|
| calligraphy | artistic, stylized, or elegant handwriting or lettering |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| puerile | juvenile |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| passe | past one's prime |
