GRE Word List

RECUMBENT

suggestive of repose : leaning

The meaning of the word recumbent is suggestive of repose : leaning.

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mangeany 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
climacticof, relating to, or constituting a climax
floraa treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period
virusany 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
languorweakness or weariness of body or mind
fallowof a light yellowish-brown color
rehabilitateto restore to a former capacity : reinstate
chortleto sing or chant exultantly
allegeto assert without proof or before proving
quibbleto evade the point of an argument by caviling about words