GRE Word List

REFRAIN

curb

The meaning of the word refrain is curb.

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uniformitythe quality or state of being uniform
culpablemeriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful
conceitfavorable opinion
tauthaving no give or slack : tightly drawn
qualmsa feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety
mogulan Indian Muslim of or descended from one of several conquering groups of Mongol, Turkish, and Persian origin
etymologythe 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
wanderluststrong longing for or impulse toward wandering
proliferateto grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring
herda typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control