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 |
|---|---|
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| sidereal | of, relating to, or expressed in relation to stars or constellations : astral |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |