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 |
|---|---|
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| rococo | rococo work or style |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| gusty | the sensation of taste |
| pander | to act as a pander |
| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |