GRE Word List
INDUCE
to move by persuasion or influence
The meaning of the word induce is to move by persuasion or influence.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| plethora | an ample amount or number : abundance |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| desolate | devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted |
| etymology | the 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 |
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |