GRE Word List
RECURRENT
running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course
The meaning of the word recurrent is running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| hereafter | after this in sequence or in time |