GRE Word List
SOJOURN
a temporary stay
The meaning of the word sojourn is a temporary stay.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| brazen | made of brass |
| limn | to draw or paint on a surface |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |