GRE Word List

RECESS

the action of receding : recession

The meaning of the word recess is the action of receding : recession.

Random words

WordMeaning
itineranttraveling from place to place
inerrancyexemption from error : infallibility
outgoinggoing away : departing
politicpolitical
arcaneknown or knowable only to a few people : secret
rendezvousa place appointed for assembling or meeting
ferociousexhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality
humanitariana person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist
convulsionan abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles
discounta reduction made from the gross (see gross