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 |
|---|---|
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| bolt | a lightning stroke |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| fanfare | a short and lively sounding of trumpets |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| hindmost | farthest to the rear : last |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |