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 |
|---|---|
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| humanitarian | a person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| demolition | the act of demolishing |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| cohesion | the act or state of sticking together tightly |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |