GRE Word List
DISAVOWAL
to deny responsibility for : repudiate
The meaning of the word disavowal is to deny responsibility for : repudiate.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| suckle | to give milk to from the breast or udder |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| rig | to fit out with rigging |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| overweening | arrogant |