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 |
|---|---|
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| fructify | to bear fruit |
| filth | foul or putrid matter |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| humility | freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble |
| statutory | of or relating to statutes |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |