GRE Word List
ABSTINENCE
the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable
The meaning of the word abstinence is the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| fruition | pleasurable use or possession : enjoyment |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |