GRE Word List
RECREANT
crying for mercy : cowardly
The meaning of the word recreant is crying for mercy : cowardly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| viand | an item of food |
| germane | being at once relevant and appropriate : fitting |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |