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 |
|---|---|
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| exemplary | deserving imitation : commendable |
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |