GRE Word List
CRAVE
to ask for earnestly : beg
The meaning of the word crave is to ask for earnestly : beg.
Random words
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craft | skill in planning, making, or executing : dexterity |
periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |
sluggish | averse to activity or exertion : indolent |
casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
query | question |
variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |
atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
peevish | querulous in temperament or mood : fretful |
choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |