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 |
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prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
fugitive | running away or intending flight |
microcosm | a little world |
eminent | exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : prominent |
scourge | whip |
paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |
agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |