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 |
|---|---|
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| economy | the structure or conditions of economic life in a country, area, or period |
| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |
| healthful | beneficial to health of body or mind |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| provision | the act or process of providing |
| revert | to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject) |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |
| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |