GRE Word List

AMENITIES

something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment

The meaning of the word amenities is something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment.

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WordMeaning
amnestythe act of an authority (such as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals
inviolablesecure from violation or profanation
apothecaryone who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes
duressforcible restraint or restriction
littera covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger
festerto generate pus
grossglaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness
stalematea drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play
stockadea line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense
innuendoan oblique allusion : hint