GRE Word List
DURESS
forcible restraint or restriction
The meaning of the word duress is forcible restraint or restriction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| hortatory | hortative |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
| concordat | compact |
| fester | to generate pus |