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 |
|---|---|
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| vulpine | of, relating to, or resembling a fox |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| warrant | sanction |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |