GRE Word List

MORATORIUM

a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt

The meaning of the word moratorium is a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt.

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WordMeaning
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motifa usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts)
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languiddrooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak
whinnyto neigh especially in a low or gentle way
feignto give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression
corpusthe body of a human or animal especially when dead
accompliceone associated with another especially in wrongdoing
palatialof, relating to, or being a palace
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