GRE Word List
RETRENCH
cut down
The meaning of the word retrench is cut down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| savor | the taste or smell of something |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| agape | wide open : gaping |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| thermal | of, relating to, or caused by heat |
| imply | to express indirectly |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| consecrate | dedicated to a sacred purpose |