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 |
|---|---|
| ineffectual | not producing the proper or intended effect : futile |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| embark | to go on board a vehicle for transportation |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |