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 |
|---|---|
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| malediction | curse |
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |
| catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |