GRE Word List
RECITE
to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly
The meaning of the word recite is to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pluck | to pull or pick off or out |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| diadem | crown |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| miscreant | unbelieving |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |