GRE Word List
RECUMBENT
suggestive of repose : leaning
The meaning of the word recumbent is suggestive of repose : leaning.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| satiate | filled to satiety |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |