GRE Word List
REFRAIN
curb
The meaning of the word refrain is curb.
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uniformity | the quality or state of being uniform |
culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
conceit | favorable opinion |
taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
mogul | an Indian Muslim of or descended from one of several conquering groups of Mongol, Turkish, and Persian origin |
etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |