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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gerontology | the comprehensive multidisciplinary study of aging and older adults compare geriatrics |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| remission | the act or process of remitting |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |