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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| pedantic | of, relating to, or being a pedant |
| inerrancy | exemption from error : infallibility |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| vortex | something that resembles a whirlpool |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| transpose | to change the relative place or normal order of : alter the sequence of |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |