GRE Word List
RETIRING
reserved
The meaning of the word retiring is reserved.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| concentric | having a common center |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| satyr | a sylvan deity in Greek mythology having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian revelry |
| provenance | origin |
| opalescent | reflecting an iridescent light |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |