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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| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |