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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|---|---|
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
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| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| asunder | into parts |
| fester | to generate pus |
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| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| 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 |
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