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 |
|---|---|
| brook | creek |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| osseous | bony |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| low | having a small upward extension or elevation |
| vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant |
| bridle | the headgear with which a horse is governed and which carries a bit (see bit |