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 |
|---|---|
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| shade | comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| sly | wise in practical affairs |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |