GRE Word List

DURESS

forcible restraint or restriction

The meaning of the word duress is forcible restraint or restriction.

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forebearsancestor
discounta reduction made from the gross (see gross
coniferany 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
enumerateto ascertain the number of : count
ramshackleappearing ready to collapse : rickety
hyperboleextravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones")
intermediarymediator
oscillateto swing backward and forward like a pendulum
soporificcausing or tending to cause sleep
juxtaposeto place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)