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 |
|---|---|
| corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| carefree | free from care: such as |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| lectern | a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |