GRE Word List
RESERVE
to hold in reserve : keep back
The meaning of the word reserve is to hold in reserve : keep back.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |