GRE Word List
RECUPERATE
to get back : regain
The meaning of the word recuperate is to get back : regain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| referendum | the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |