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 |
|---|---|
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| indicative | serving to indicate |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |