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 |
|---|---|
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| shimmer | to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| hygiene | a science of the establishment and maintenance of health |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| kismet | fate |