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 |
|---|---|
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| impenitent | not penitent |
| exquisite | marked by flawless craftsmanship or by beautiful, ingenious, delicate, or elaborate execution |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| omniscient | having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |