GRE Word List
RETRENCH
cut down
The meaning of the word retrench is cut down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sneak | to go stealthily or furtively : slink |
| accessible | capable of being reached |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |
| actuary | clerk |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| crust | the hardened exterior or surface part of bread |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| gloat | to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight |
| angular | forming an angle : sharp-cornered |