GRE Word List
RESUSCITATE
to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness
The meaning of the word resuscitate is to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |