GRE Word List
REFRAIN
curb
The meaning of the word refrain is curb.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| dogged | marked by stubborn determination |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| gravity | dignity or sobriety of bearing |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |