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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| musty | impaired by damp or mildew : moldy |
| ample | generous or more than adequate in size, scope, or capacity |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| iniquitous | characterized by iniquity |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |