GRE Word List
RECAPITULATE
to retell or restate briefly : summarize
The meaning of the word recapitulate is to retell or restate briefly : summarize.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| fiend | devil |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |