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 |
|---|---|
| jeopardize | to expose to danger or risk : imperil |
| rue | to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
| flutter | to flap the wings rapidly |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |