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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| levee | a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| criteria | a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based |
| rift | fissure |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |