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 |
|---|---|
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| substantiate | to give substance or form to : embody |
| browbeat | to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech : bully |
| boor | peasant |
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |