GRE Word List
RETROSPECTIVE
of, relating to, or given to retrospection
The meaning of the word retrospective is of, relating to, or given to retrospection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| wake | to be or remain awake |
| imprecation | curse |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| intrigue | the practice of engaging in secret schemes |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| paramour | lover |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |