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 |
|---|---|
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| replicate | duplicate |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| cohesion | the act or state of sticking together tightly |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |