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 |
|---|---|
| ominous | being or exhibiting an omen : portentous |
| headstrong | not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions |
| untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |