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 |
|---|---|
| scourge | whip |
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| belabor | to attack verbally |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |