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 |
|---|---|
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| lumber | to move ponderously |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| cache | a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |