GRE Word List
RENOUNCE
to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration
The meaning of the word renounce is to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
| incessant | continuing or following without interruption : unceasing |
| discredit | to refuse to accept as true or accurate : disbelieve |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| harbor | a place of security and comfort : refuge |
| fete | festival |
| ingrained | forming a part of the essence or inmost being : deep-seated |