GRE Word List
DURESS
forcible restraint or restriction
The meaning of the word duress is forcible restraint or restriction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| causal | expressing or indicating cause : causative |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| aggregate | formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |