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 |
|---|---|
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| minion | a servile dependent, follower, or underling |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| chivalrous | valiant |
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| ichthyology | a branch of zoology that deals with fishes |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |