GRE Word List
RECITAL
a detailed account : enumeration
The meaning of the word recital is a detailed account : enumeration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |