GRE Word List
RETRENCH
cut down
The meaning of the word retrench is cut down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nimble | quick and light in motion : agile |
| imbue | endow |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |