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 |
|---|---|
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| fabricate | invent |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| dilute | attenuate |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
| refulgent | a radiant or resplendent quality or state : brilliance |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| stumble | to fall into sin or waywardness |