GRE Word List
CAPITULATE
to surrender often after negotiation of terms
The meaning of the word capitulate is to surrender often after negotiation of terms.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
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| equanimity | evenness of mind especially under stress |
| buoyant | having buoyancy |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| progeny | descendants |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| decipher | decode |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |