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 |
|---|---|
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| droop | to hang or incline downward |
| score | twenty |
| stamp | to pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument |