GRE Word List
HOSTAGE
a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement
The meaning of the word hostage is a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| refrain | curb |
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| gruel | a thin porridge |
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |
| smart | having or showing a high degree of mental ability : intelligent |
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |