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 |
|---|---|
| noisome | noxious |
| rent | property (such as a house) rented or for rent |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| shaving | the act of one that shaves |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| amalgam | a mixture of different elements |