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 |
|---|---|
| lavish | expending or bestowing profusely : prodigal |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| oculist | ophthalmologist |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |