GRE Word List
RETIRING
reserved
The meaning of the word retiring is reserved.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| denizen | inhabitant |
| fodder | something fed to domestic animals |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| outrage | an act of violence or brutality |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| vicar | an ecclesiastical agent: such as |
| abet | to actively second and encourage (something, such as an activity or plan) |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |