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 |
|---|---|
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| kudos | praise given for achievement |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |
| throes | pang |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |