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 |
|---|---|
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| infantile | of or relating to infants or infancy |
| limbo | an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |