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 |
|---|---|
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| notoriety | the quality or state of being notorious |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| prosperous | auspicious |
| leash | a line for leading or restraining an animal |
| warrant | sanction |
| humid | containing or characterized by perceptible moisture especially to the point of being oppressive |