GRE Word List
ABSTAIN
to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice
The meaning of the word abstain is to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tramp | to walk, tread, or step especially heavily |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| quarry | game |
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |
| concur | to express agreement |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |