GRE Word List
RETRENCH
cut down
The meaning of the word retrench is cut down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| cohorts | companion |
| leery | suspicious |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| insinuate | to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |