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 |
|---|---|
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| steep | lofty |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |