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 |
|---|---|
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| nimble | quick and light in motion : agile |
| yore | time past and especially long past |