GRE Word List
DURESS
forcible restraint or restriction
The meaning of the word duress is forcible restraint or restriction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| inquisitive | given to examination or investigation |
| freebooter | pirate |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| revoke | to annul by recalling or taking back : rescind |
| grapple | the act or an instance of grappling |