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Good at holding or remembering something.

adjective

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retentive

Her retentive memory made learning the long poem easier.
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Returning to a fictional language club, Omar worried that his conversation skills would atrophy if he continued avoiding opportunities to use them. His retentive memory still held many words from earlier lessons, but recalling vocabulary did not settle every choice during a fast exchange.
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