GRE Word List

HORTATORY

hortative

The meaning of the word hortatory is hortative.

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WordMeaning
advertto turn the mind or attention
accommodateto provide with something desired, needed, or suited
beleaguerbesiege
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
panoramicof, relating to, or resembling a panorama: such as
miscreantunbelieving
crescendoa gradual increase
ignominydeep personal humiliation and disgrace
imponderablenot ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness
fretto eat or gnaw into : corrode