GRE Word List
DURESS
forcible restraint or restriction
The meaning of the word duress is forcible restraint or restriction.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
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| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
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| retract | to draw back or in |
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| dart | a light spear |
| spoof | deceive |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |