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 |
|---|---|
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| meander | a winding path or course |
| modish | fashionable |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |