GRE Word List
DURESS
forcible restraint or restriction
The meaning of the word duress is forcible restraint or restriction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| beware | to be on one's guard |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| quarry | game |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |