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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lag | one that lags or is last |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |
| idolatry | the worship of a physical object as a god |