GRE Word List
RECUMBENT
suggestive of repose : leaning
The meaning of the word recumbent is suggestive of repose : leaning.
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|---|---|
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| mass | the liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| sectarian | of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| stilted | pompous |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |