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 |
|---|---|
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| transitory | of brief duration : temporary |
| diabolical | of, relating to, or characteristic of the devil : devilish |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |