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 |
|---|---|
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |