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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| gape | to open the mouth wide |
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |