GRE Word List
RETRENCH
cut down
The meaning of the word retrench is cut down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| minuscule | very small |
| increment | the amount or degree by which something changes |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |