GRE Word List
RETIRING
reserved
The meaning of the word retiring is reserved.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |
| hypochondriac | hypochondriacal |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| fluency | the quality or state of being fluent |
| infest | to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner |