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).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |