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 |
|---|---|
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| flighty | swift |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |