GRE Word List
RETENTIVE
having the power, property, or capacity of retaining
The meaning of the word retentive is having the power, property, or capacity of retaining.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| dawdle | to spend time idly |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| cogitate | to ponder or meditate on usually intently |
| infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |