GRE Word List
RECITAL
a detailed account : enumeration
The meaning of the word recital is a detailed account : enumeration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| calligraphy | artistic, stylized, or elegant handwriting or lettering |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| amenities | something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| astringent | causing a tightening of soft organic tissues : styptic |
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |