GRE Word List
SOBRIETY
the quality or state of being sober
The meaning of the word sobriety is the quality or state of being sober.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| snuffle | to snuff or sniff usually audibly and repeatedly |
| urge | to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| vulnerable | capable of being physically or emotionally wounded |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| culmination | the action of culminating |