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 |
|---|---|
| imbecility | the quality or state of being very stupid or foolish : utter foolishness |
| rigor | harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| vixen | a female fox |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |