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 |
|---|---|
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| touching | capable of arousing emotions of tenderness or compassion |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| mealymouthed | not plain and straightforward : devious |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| fiend | devil |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| disgruntle | to make ill-humored or discontented |