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 |
|---|---|
| residual | remainder |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| prank | trick |
| prosper | to succeed in an enterprise or activity |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| succulent | full of juice : juicy |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |