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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |