GRE Word List
WITHHOLD
to hold back from action : check
The meaning of the word withhold is to hold back from action : check.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| entree | the act or manner of entering : entrance |
| doze | to sleep lightly |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
| illusive | based on or producing illusion : illusory |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| canard | a false or unfounded report or story |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |