GRE Word List
RETRENCH
cut down
The meaning of the word retrench is cut down.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| engender | beget |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| jeopardize | to expose to danger or risk : imperil |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |