GRE Word List
RETRIEVE
to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game)
The meaning of the word retrieve is to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| elliptical | of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| pudding | blood sausage |