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 |
|---|---|
| unbridled | unrestrained |
| amnesty | the act of an authority (such as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| blush | outward appearance : view |
| climactic | of, relating to, or constituting a climax |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| mischance | bad luck |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |