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 |
|---|---|
| self-righteous | convinced of one's own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others : narrow-mindedly moralistic |
| mediate | occupying a middle position |
| lexicon | a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : dictionary |
| slick | having a smooth surface : slippery |
| buttress | a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| cadaverous | of or relating to a corpse |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |