GRE Word List
RETORT
to pay or hurl back : return
The meaning of the word retort is to pay or hurl back : return.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| loathe | to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : detest |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| apprise | to give notice to : tell |
| bereaved | suffering the death of a loved one |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |