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 |
|---|---|
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
| unfetter | to free from fetters |
| clown | farmer |
| conduit | a natural or artificial channel through which something (such as a fluid) is conveyed |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| 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 |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| kindred | of a similar nature or character : like |