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 |
|---|---|
| hive | a container for housing honeybees |
| verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse |
| anthem | a song or hymn of praise or gladness |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |