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 |
|---|---|
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| uncouth | awkward and uncultivated in appearance, manner, or behavior : rude |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |