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.

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transcribeto make a written copy of
commonwealtha nation, state, or other political unit: such as
mongrelan individual resulting from the interbreeding of diverse breeds (see breed
assertto state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively
anathemasomeone or something intensely disliked or loathed
aliasotherwise called : otherwise known as
foistto introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant
exacerbateto make more violent, bitter, or severe
volatilecharacterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change
vultureany of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion