GRE Word List
RECANT
to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce
The meaning of the word recant is to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |
| vilify | to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame |