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 |
|---|---|
| potable | suitable for drinking |
| demur | to take exception : object |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'รฉtat |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| prong | fork |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| opus | work |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
