GRE Word List
RETIRING
reserved
The meaning of the word retiring is reserved.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| pitfall | trap |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |