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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| delusion | something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| listless | characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| germane | being at once relevant and appropriate : fitting |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |