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 |
|---|---|
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |
| repertoire | a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform |
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |