GRE Word List
RETIRING
reserved
The meaning of the word retiring is reserved.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pedantic | of, relating to, or being a pedant |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| vendetta | blood feud |
| leery | suspicious |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |