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 |
|---|---|
| militant | engaged in warfare or combat : fighting |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| malefactor | one who commits an offense against the law |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| humility | freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |