GRE Word List
DETERRENT
serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter
The meaning of the word deterrent is serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| clangor | a resounding clang or medley of clangs |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |