GRE Word List
IRRETRIEVABLE
not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover
The meaning of the word irretrievable is not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |
| quarry | game |