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 |
|---|---|
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| impuissance | weakness |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |
| apiary | a place where bees are kept |
| cater | to provide a supply of food |
| verbalize | to express something in words |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |