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 |
|---|---|
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
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| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| eventual | contingent |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
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