GRE Word List
RETRENCH
cut down
The meaning of the word retrench is cut down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| entrepreneur | one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise |
| figurine | a small carved or molded figure : statuette |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| viscous | having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| scabbard | a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |
| straggle | to wander from the direct course or way : rove |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
| vignette | a picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper |