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 |
|---|---|
| lugubrious | mournful |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |