GRE Word List
RETIRING
reserved
The meaning of the word retiring is reserved.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| maternal | of, relating to, belonging to, or characteristic of a mother : motherly |
| fallible | liable to be erroneous |
| impediment | something that impedes |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
