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 |
|---|---|
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |
| rare | seldom occurring or found : uncommon |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| clamor | noisy shouting |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |