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 |
|---|---|
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| forebears | ancestor |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| evenhanded | fair |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |