GRE Word List
RECREANT
crying for mercy : cowardly
The meaning of the word recreant is crying for mercy : cowardly.
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| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |