GRE Word List
DURESS
forcible restraint or restriction
The meaning of the word duress is forcible restraint or restriction.
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|---|---|
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
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| incompatible | not compatible: such as |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| categorical | absolute |
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| subsidiary | furnishing aid or support : auxiliary |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |