GRE Word List
RETRENCH
cut down
The meaning of the word retrench is cut down.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| emblazon | to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices |
| conspire | plot |