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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| submissive | submitting to others |
| filth | foul or putrid matter |
| rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |