GRE Word List
RECRIMINATION
a retaliatory accusation
The meaning of the word recrimination is a retaliatory accusation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| marginal | written or printed in the margin of a page or sheet |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| endearment | a word or an act (such as a caress) expressing affection |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| innovation | a new idea, method, or device : novelty |