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 |
|---|---|
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| primate | a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| fundamental | serving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function : basic |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| prattle | prate |
| flick | a light sharp jerky stroke or movement |
| eloquence | discourse marked by force and persuasiveness |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |