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 |
|---|---|
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| philology | the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| detraction | a lessening of reputation or esteem especially by envious, malicious, or petty criticism : belittling |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |