GRE Word List
WARD
the action or process of guarding
The meaning of the word ward is the action or process of guarding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| vain | having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements : conceited |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |