GRE Word List
CESSION
a yielding to another : concession
The meaning of the word cession is a yielding to another : concession.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| clemency | disposition to be merciful and especially to moderate the severity of punishment due |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| consort | associate |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| lout | to bow in respect |
| timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| decipher | decode |