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 |
|---|---|
| bountiful | liberal or generous in bestowing gifts or favors |
| minuscule | very small |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| equanimity | evenness of mind especially under stress |