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 |
|---|---|
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| 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 |
| precipitant | precipitate |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |