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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |
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| rivulet | a small stream |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |
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| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |