GRE Word List
RECIPIENT
one that receives : receiver
The meaning of the word recipient is one that receives : receiver.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| sphinx-like | enigmatic; mysterious |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'état |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |