GRE Word List
ELICIT
to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response)
The meaning of the word elicit is to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| actuarial | of or relating to actuaries |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| equity | justice according to natural law or right |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| fundamental | serving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function : basic |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |