GRE Word List
RECREANT
crying for mercy : cowardly
The meaning of the word recreant is crying for mercy : cowardly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| mendicant | beggar |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| nutrition | the act or process of nourishing or being nourished |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |