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 |
|---|---|
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| docile | easily taught |
| perpetual | continuing forever : everlasting |
| crass | gross |
| unwieldy | not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) : cumbersome |
| convoluted | having convolutions |