GRE Word List
RECREANT
crying for mercy : cowardly
The meaning of the word recreant is crying for mercy : cowardly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| interim | an intervening time : interval |