GRE Word List
LEEWAY
an allowable margin of freedom or variation : tolerance
The meaning of the word leeway is an allowable margin of freedom or variation : tolerance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conversant | having knowledge or experience |
| eventual | contingent |
| ecstasy | a state of overwhelming emotion |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
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| inadvertently | unintentional |
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |