GRE Word List
ABSTEMIOUS
marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol
The meaning of the word abstemious is marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| detraction | a lessening of reputation or esteem especially by envious, malicious, or petty criticism : belittling |
| defer | put off |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| concordat | compact |
| cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
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| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |