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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| puissant | having puissance : powerful |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |