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 |
|---|---|
| calculated | apt |
| mediate | occupying a middle position |
| coeval | of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration |
| alloy | the degree of mixture with base metals : fineness |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| witticism | a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark |
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |