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 |
|---|---|
| cache | a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| drab | slattern |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
| rapport | a friendly, harmonious relationship |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |