GRE Word List
REFRAIN
curb
The meaning of the word refrain is curb.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |
| conscientious | meticulous |
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |