GRE Word List
CITE
to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court)
The meaning of the word cite is to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| coy | marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| ulcer | a break in skin or mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue, disintegration and necrosis of epithelial tissue, and often pus |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| abase | to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem |
| febrile | marked or caused by fever : feverish |
| draft | the act of drawing or pulling in a net |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |