reprieve
B2CEFR level
62/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General noun
A cancellation or postponement of a punishment, especially of execution.
The condemned man was granted a last-minute reprieve.
Law noun
The temporary postponement or cancellation of a punishment, especially a death sentence.
The condemned man was granted a last-minute reprieve pending fresh evidence.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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