GRE Word List
GAVEL
rent or tribute in medieval England
The meaning of the word gavel is rent or tribute in medieval England.
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|---|---|
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| demented | mad |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| breach | infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| perceptive | responsive to sensory stimuli : discerning |
| mesmerize | to subject to mesmerism |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| symmetry | balanced proportions |