GRE Word List
RECREANT
crying for mercy : cowardly
The meaning of the word recreant is crying for mercy : cowardly.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| elated | marked by high spirits : exultant |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| hive | a container for housing honeybees |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |