GRE Word List
FORBEARANCE
a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due
The meaning of the word forbearance is a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| dialectical | of, relating to, or in accordance with dialectic |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| adjuration | a solemn oath |
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |