GRE Word List
RECRIMINATION
a retaliatory accusation
The meaning of the word recrimination is a retaliatory accusation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| invective | insulting or abusive language : vituperation |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| wiggle | to move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle |
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |