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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| score | twenty |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
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| appease | pacify |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |