GRE Word List
EVOKE
to call forth or up: such as
The meaning of the word evoke is to call forth or up: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| 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 |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| facsimile | an exact copy |
| minute | the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |