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 |
|---|---|
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| collaborate | to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| foppish | foolish |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |