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 |
|---|---|
| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| protract | to prolong in time or space : continue |
| trappings | outward signs |