GRE Word List
RECESS
the action of receding : recession
The meaning of the word recess is the action of receding : recession.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
| entomology | a branch of zoology that deals with insects |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |