GRE Word List
RETIRING
reserved
The meaning of the word retiring is reserved.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| litigation | the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |
| infest | to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner |
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| trunk | the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |