GRE Word List
IRRETRIEVABLE
not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover
The meaning of the word irretrievable is not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| canny | clever |
| transcendental | transcendent |
| surpass | to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed |
| jumble | to move in a confused or disordered manner |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
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| chip | a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |