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 |
|---|---|
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| stem_from | arise from; originate from |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| enterprise | a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |