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 |
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potable | suitable for drinking |
demur | to take exception : object |
coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'รฉtat |
hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
prong | fork |
expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
opus | work |
sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |