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 |
|---|---|
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| foolhardy | foolishly adventurous and bold : rash |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| idle | not occupied or employed: such as |