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 |
|---|---|
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
| uninhibited | free from inhibition |
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| lateral | of or relating to the side |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |