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 |
|---|---|
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| zest | a piece of the peel of a citrus fruit (such as an orange or lemon) used as flavoring |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| aromatic | of, relating to, or having aroma: |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| clavicle | a bone of the shoulder girdle typically serving to link the scapula and sternum |