GRE Word List
RELINQUISH
to withdraw or retreat from : leave behind
The meaning of the word relinquish is to withdraw or retreat from : leave behind.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| affliction | a cause of persistent pain or distress |