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 |
|---|---|
| docile | easily taught |
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| loll | to hang loosely or laxly : droop |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |