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 |
|---|---|
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| resplendent | shining brilliantly : characterized by a glowing splendor |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |