GRE Word List
REFRAIN
curb
The meaning of the word refrain is curb.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| animosity | a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| concurrent | operating or occurring at the same time |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| niggle | trifle |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| propellant | capable of propelling |