GRE Word List
RECESS
the action of receding : recession
The meaning of the word recess is the action of receding : recession.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
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| implication | something implied: such as |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| flaccid | not firm or stiff |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |