GRE Word List
RECITAL
a detailed account : enumeration
The meaning of the word recital is a detailed account : enumeration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| wont | accustomed |
| tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |
| colloquy | conversation |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |