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 |
|---|---|
| piscatorial | piscatory |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| primp | to dress, adorn, or arrange in a careful or finicky manner |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| unique | being the only one : sole |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| apposite | highly pertinent or appropriate : apt |
| sadistic | of, relating to, or characterized by sadism |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |