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.
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| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
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