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 |
|---|---|
| polity | political organization |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| juncture | a point of time |
| enhance | heighten |