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 |
|---|---|
| mediocre | of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| tremor | a trembling or shaking usually from physical weakness, emotional stress, or disease |
| vindicate | to free from allegation or blame |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |