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 |
|---|---|
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| gracious | marked by kindness and courtesy |
| alleviate | relieve |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |