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 |
|---|---|
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| swipe | a strong sweeping blow |
| loft | an upper room or floor : attic |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
| kernel | the inner softer part of a seed, fruit stone, or nut |
| whittle | a large knife |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| exhume | disinter |
| flounder | flatfish |