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 |
|---|---|
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| facsimile | an exact copy |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| provident | frugal |
| cognizance | a distinguishing mark or emblem (such as a heraldic bearing) |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |