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 |
|---|---|
| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| decipher | decode |
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| score | twenty |
| minatory | having a menacing quality |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |