GRE Word List
DETAIN
to hold or keep in or as if in custody
The meaning of the word detain is to hold or keep in or as if in custody.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| postulate | demand |
| wiggle | to move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| recast | to cast again |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| fulcrum | prop |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |