GRE Word List
RESORT
one that affords aid or refuge : resource
The meaning of the word resort is one that affords aid or refuge : resource.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| repercussion | reflection |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| rag | a waste piece of cloth |
| mortician | undertaker |
| marshal | a high official in the household of a medieval king, prince, or noble originally having charge of the cavalry but later usually in command of the military forces |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| confidant | one to whom secrets are entrusted |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |