GRE Word List
RETRENCH
cut down
The meaning of the word retrench is cut down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aviary | a place for keeping birds confined |
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| engender | beget |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| inclined | having inclination, disposition, or tendency |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |