GRE Word List
ADVOCATE
one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal
The meaning of the word advocate is one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| apparent | open to view : visible |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| acknowledge | to recognize the rights, authority, or status of |
| unwarranted | lacking adequate or official support : not warranted : unjustified |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |