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 |
|---|---|
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| jaundice | yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| agenda | a list or outline of things to be considered or done |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |