GRE Word List
CONTINENCE
the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily
The meaning of the word continence is the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| duration | continuance in time |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| malediction | curse |
| 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 |