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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| nectar | the drink of the Greek and Roman gods |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| tender | marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |