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 |
|---|---|
| freebooter | pirate |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| statutory | of or relating to statutes |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| cog | a tooth on the rim of a wheel or gear |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| supersede | to cause to be set aside |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |