GRE Word List
RECIPIENT
one that receives : receiver
The meaning of the word recipient is one that receives : receiver.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |