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 |
|---|---|
| smart | having or showing a high degree of mental ability : intelligent |
| protocol | an original draft, minute, or record of a document or transaction |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| dominate | rule |
| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| effectuate | to cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect |