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 |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| reconcile | to restore to friendship or harmony |
| rococo | rococo work or style |
| categorical | absolute |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |
| freebooter | pirate |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| 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) |