GRE Word List
RECUMBENT
suggestive of repose : leaning
The meaning of the word recumbent is suggestive of repose : leaning.
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| 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 |
| climactic | of, relating to, or constituting a climax |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| virus | any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| fallow | of a light yellowish-brown color |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| chortle | to sing or chant exultantly |
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |