GRE Word List
LENIENCY
the quality or state of being lenient
The meaning of the word leniency is the quality or state of being lenient.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| guileless | innocent |
| culinary | of or relating to the kitchen or cookery |
| demur | to take exception : object |
| introspective | characterized by examination of one's own thoughts and feelings : thoughtfully reflective : employing, marked by, or tending to introspection |
| dearth | scarcity that makes dear |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| cohorts | companion |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |