GRE Word List
RECUPERATE
to get back : regain
The meaning of the word recuperate is to get back : regain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| mirage | an optical (see optical |
| delve | excavate |
| numismatist | the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (such as medals) |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |