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 |
|---|---|
| slew | a large number |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| heyday | the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| deploy | to extend (a military unit) especially in width |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| larceny | the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently |