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 |
|---|---|
| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |
| scad | any of several carangid fishes (especially of the genus Decapterus) |
| stem | the main trunk of a plant |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| ford | a shallow part of a body of water that may be crossed by wading |
| garnish | decorate |