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 |
|---|---|
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| vying | contending; to strive for superiority |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |