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 |
|---|---|
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| mortician | undertaker |
| vise | any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| dispirited | to deprive of morale or enthusiasm |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |