maintaining, preserving, securing, regaining, keeping, maximizing, attracting, reclaiming, recapturing, boosting, relinquishing, bolstering, restoring, wresting, acquiring, obtaining, enhancing, reestablishing, augmenting, ensuring, gaining, elevating, cultivating, removing, improving, solidifying, reducing, safeguarding, renewing, diluting, attaining, capturing, depriving, creating, guaranteeing, protecting, ceding, managing, establishing, reinvigorating, minimizing, losing, lowering, reinforcing, reviving, revitalizing, conserving, transferring, husbanding, reinstating, extracting, achieving, diminishing, sustaining, affording, instilling, conveying, providing, optimizing, rejuvenating, cementing, complementing, eliminating, entrenching, remunerating, demoting, jettisoning, shifting, infusing, usurping, luring, bringing, finding, strengthening, reasserting, balancing, forfeiting, pensioning, loosing, upholding, nurturing, assuring, reserving, allocating, adhering, staying, sidelining, replacing, lessening, controlling, increasing, retaking, enlarging, expanding, aligning, imparting, ousting, streamlining, delegating, giving, impressing, terminating, activated, annihilation, containing, cure, nullification, overcoming, starvation, subversion, abandonment, abdication, abrogation, actualization, adjunct, advan, advantage, advantages, advertiser, alienation, alternators, ameliorations, castellated, ceiling, clapboard, crenellated, curvilinear, ferroelectric, groove, honeycomb, honeycombed, insulating, keyhole, layered, multilayered, nacreous, prisonlike, protective, reticulated, semitransparent, shingle, shingled

., abbreviate, abridge, body, brown rice, consistence, consistency, contract, cut, emeritus, foreshorten, ha-ha, haw-haw, memory, neo-lamarckism, reduce, retention, retentiveness, retentivity, retired, shorten, sunk fence, undissolved

holding, retentive