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 |
|---|---|
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| scotch | scottish |