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 |
|---|---|
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |
| vibrant | pulsating with life, vigor, or activity |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| embrace | to clasp in the arms : hug |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| amphibian | an amphibious organism |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| feint | something feigned |