GRE Word List
DURESS
forcible restraint or restriction
The meaning of the word duress is forcible restraint or restriction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forebears | ancestor |
| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| enumerate | to ascertain the number of : count |
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| intermediary | mediator |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |