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 |
|---|---|
| subliminal | inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| dawdle | to spend time idly |
| florid | very flowery in style : ornate |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |