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Six example sentences with probity, each labelled with its topic.
The auditor's probity cost her the account: she refused to sign, and the client took its fees elsewhere.
Finance
Judges are removed for many things, but a single lapse of probity ends a career faster than any bad ruling.
Law
The Roman censor's job depended on probity: he judged others' conduct, so his own had to survive any inspection.
History
Voters forgave the mayor many mistakes because her probity was never in question: no gifts, no favors, no hidden accounts.
Politics
A researcher's probity shows in the results she publishes when the experiment fails, not in the ones that succeed.
Science
The purchasing manager's probity was famous: he returned even the calendar a supplier sent him at Christmas.
Business
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- Barron's 333 GRE High-Frequency Words
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE Words
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)
- Magoosh GRE 1000
- PrepScholar 357 GRE Words
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)
- PowerScore GRE Repeat Offenders (699)
- GregMat 960 GRE Words
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT Words
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