GRE Word List
FORFEIT
something forfeited or subject to being forfeited (as for a crime, offense, or neglect of duty) : penalty
The meaning of the word forfeit is something forfeited or subject to being forfeited (as for a crime, offense, or neglect of duty) : penalty.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| skiff | any of various small boats |
| expedite | to accelerate the process or progress of : speed up |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| elysian | of or relating to Elysium |