GRE Word List
RELENT
to become less severe, harsh, or strict usually from reasons of humanity
The meaning of the word relent is to become less severe, harsh, or strict usually from reasons of humanity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| terminus | either end of a transportation line or travel route |
| sledge | sledgehammer |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |