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 |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| hut | an often small and temporary dwelling of simple construction : shack |
| heyday | the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| inestimable | incapable of being estimated or computed |
| courier | messenger |
| skimp | skimpy |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| solder | a metal or metallic alloy used when melted to join metallic surfaces |