GRE Word List
RETAIN
to keep in possession or use
The meaning of the word retain is to keep in possession or use.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| opportune | suitable or convenient for a particular occurrence |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| faculty | ability |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| bantering | to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| vie | to strive for superiority : contend |