GRE Word List
RETIRING
reserved
The meaning of the word retiring is reserved.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| politic | political |
| pluck | to pull or pick off or out |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| appurtenances | accessory objects |
| shove | to push along |
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
| kindred | of a similar nature or character : like |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |