GRE Word List
PROXIMITY
the quality or state of being proximate : closeness
The meaning of the word proximity is the quality or state of being proximate : closeness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| endue | provide |
| disaffected | discontented and resentful especially against authority : rebellious |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| executor | one who executes something |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |