GRE Word List
DURESS
forcible restraint or restriction
The meaning of the word duress is forcible restraint or restriction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| imminent | ready to take place : happening soon |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| camaraderie | a spirit of friendly good-fellowship |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| cue | the letter q |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |