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 |
|---|---|
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| ingenious | having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |
| indignation | anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| dissension | disagreement |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |