GRE Word List
REFRAIN
curb
The meaning of the word refrain is curb.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| disparity | a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity |
| frock | an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| tycoon | a businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence : magnate |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |