GRE Word List
RETIRING
reserved
The meaning of the word retiring is reserved.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| intrigue | the practice of engaging in secret schemes |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| fester | to generate pus |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| junket | trip |