GRE Word List
RETRENCH
cut down
The meaning of the word retrench is cut down.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| obituary | a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| annotate | to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |
| drama | a composition (see composition |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |