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 |
|---|---|
| pretend | to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| canvass | to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political support or to determine opinions or sentiments |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| carnage | the flesh of slain animals or humans |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| transcendental | transcendent |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |