GRE Word List
RETRENCH
cut down
The meaning of the word retrench is cut down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| eminent | exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : prominent |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| carnage | the flesh of slain animals or humans |
| boor | peasant |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| nomenclature | name |