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 |
|---|---|
| shift | to exchange for or replace by another : change |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| gusty | the sensation of taste |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| amazon | a member of a race of female warriors of Greek mythology |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |