GRE Word List
RETORT
to pay or hurl back : return
The meaning of the word retort is to pay or hurl back : return.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |