GRE Word List
REPRIEVE
to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner)
The meaning of the word reprieve is to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| browbeat | to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech : bully |
| frolic | full of fun : merry |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| diorama | a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |