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.
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| purported | reputed |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
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| tactful | having or showing tact |
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| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |