GRE Word List
RESPITE
a period of temporary delay
The meaning of the word respite is a period of temporary delay.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| antecede | precede |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| environ | encircle |