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 |
|---|---|
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| disjointed | being thrown out of orderly function |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
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| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |