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 |
|---|---|
| expatriate | banish |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| fluke | flatfish |
| congruent | congruous |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |