GRE Word List
RETROACTIVE
extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past
The meaning of the word retroactive is extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| saturate | to satisfy fully : satiate |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| convoluted | having convolutions |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |