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 |
|---|---|
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| negligence | the quality or state of being negligent |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| urchin | hedgehog |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| score | twenty |