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

WordMeaning
intermediarymediator
inscrutablenot readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious
hackneyedlacking in freshness or originality
reprieveto delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner)
facadethe front of a building
subalternparticular with reference to a related universal proposition
hoarda supply or fund stored up and often hidden away
sustenancemeans of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living
benedictionthe invocation (see invocation
amputateto remove by or as if by cutting