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 |
|---|---|
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| blotch | to mark or mar with blotches |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| civil | of or relating to citizens |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| residual | remainder |
| papyrus | a tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley |
| headfirst | with the head foremost |