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 |
|---|---|
| growl | rumble |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| imbibe | drink |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| rasp | to rub with something rough |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| healthful | beneficial to health of body or mind |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |