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 |
|---|---|
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| vendetta | blood feud |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| insinuate | to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| demographic | the statistical characteristics of human populations (such as age or income) used especially to identify markets |