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 |
|---|---|
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| shaving | the act of one that shaves |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| typhoon | a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea |