GRE Word List
ENTREAT
to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently
The meaning of the word entreat is to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| discriminating | making a distinction : distinguishing |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| contortions | to twist in a violent manner |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| equilibrium | a state of intellectual or emotional balance : poise |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |