GRE Word List
RETINUE
a group of retainers or attendants
The meaning of the word retinue is a group of retainers or attendants.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
| primp | to dress, adorn, or arrange in a careful or finicky manner |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |