GRE Word List
RESTRAINT
moderation or self-control; controlling force; restriction
The meaning of the word restraint is moderation or self-control; controlling force; restriction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| guy | cable or chain attached to something that needs to be braced or steadied; CF. guide |
| aria | operatic solo; a song sung by one person in an opera or oratorio |
| queer | strange; eccentric; deviating from the normal |
| draught | current of air (through a room or to a fire); act of pulling roads; act of swallowing liquid or amount of liquid swallowed at a time |
| clamor | loud continous noise; continuous demand or complaint made by a large number of people; V: make a clamor; express (a demand) continually and loudly; ADJ. clamorous |
| hypercritical | excessively exacting; too critical (without noticing good qualities) |
| wastrel | waster; profligate |
| occident | the West |
| implode | burst inward; CF. vaccum tube |
| expenditure | payment or expense; expending; something expended; output; Ex. receipt for the expenditure; Ex. expenditure of all the energy |