GRE Word List

RECLINE

to cause or permit to incline backwards

The meaning of the word recline is to cause or permit to incline backwards.

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mutterto utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed
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exoticintroduced from another country : not native to the place where found
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sadisticof, relating to, or characterized by sadism
supinelying on the back or with the face upward