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 |
|---|---|
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| septic | of, relating to, or causing putrefaction |
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |
| reek | smoke |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| checkered | marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials |