GRE Word List
RENEGE
to go back on a promise or commitment
The meaning of the word renege is to go back on a promise or commitment.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| minatory | having a menacing quality |
| felon | one who has committed a felony |
| mulct | fine |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| solder | a metal or metallic alloy used when melted to join metallic surfaces |
| glimmer | to shine faintly or unsteadily |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |