GRE Word List
RETARD
to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment
The meaning of the word retard is to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| exhume | disinter |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| mirth | gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| calculated | apt |