GRE Word List
DURESS
forcible restraint or restriction
The meaning of the word duress is forcible restraint or restriction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| dissolution | the act or process of dissolving: such as |
| pediatrician | a specialist in pediatrics |
| papyrus | a tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley |