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 |
|---|---|
| exalt | to raise in rank, power, or character |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| plight | to put or give in pledge : engage |
| misogynist | a person who hates or discriminates against women : a misogynistic person |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| insubordination | disobedient to authority |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |