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 |
|---|---|
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| barefaced | having the face uncovered: |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |