GRE Word List

RECOURSE

a turning to someone or something for help or protection

The meaning of the word recourse is a turning to someone or something for help or protection.

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WordMeaning
languiddrooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak
primatea bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation
antlerone of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family
fundamentalserving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function : basic
mutilateto cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect
prattleprate
flicka light sharp jerky stroke or movement
eloquencediscourse marked by force and persuasiveness
wrangleto dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin