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 |
|---|---|
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| stupefy | to make stupid, groggy, or insensible |