GRE Word List
RETRACT
to draw back or in
The meaning of the word retract is to draw back or in.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |
| impeach | to charge with a crime or misdemeanor |
| pretend | to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |