GRE Word List
REFRAIN
curb
The meaning of the word refrain is curb.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| acumen | keenness and depth of perception, discernment, or discrimination especially in practical matters |
| thrive | to grow vigorously : flourish |
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |
| enliven | to give life, action, or spirit to : animate |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| bereaved | suffering the death of a loved one |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |