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 |
|---|---|
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| mediate | occupying a middle position |
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| precise | exactly or sharply defined or stated |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| vibrant | pulsating with life, vigor, or activity |