GRE Word List
RECREANT
crying for mercy : cowardly
The meaning of the word recreant is crying for mercy : cowardly.
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| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| lumber | to move ponderously |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| elysian | of or relating to Elysium |
| bilious | of or relating to a yellow or greenish fluid that is secreted by the liver and that aids especially in the emulsification and absorption of fats : of or relating to bile (see bile |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| 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 |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| offhand | without premeditation or preparation : extempore |