GRE Word List
RETRENCH
cut down
The meaning of the word retrench is cut down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| shambles | a meat market |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |