GRE Word List
RECIPIENT
one that receives : receiver
The meaning of the word recipient is one that receives : receiver.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| apotheosis | the perfect form or example of something : quintessence |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |
| liability | the quality or state of being liable |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |