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 |
|---|---|
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| lustrous | reflecting light evenly and efficiently without glitter or sparkle |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| tranquillity | the quality or state of being tranquil |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |