GRE Word List
INGRATIATE
to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort
The meaning of the word ingratiate is to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort.
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| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |
| prurient | marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| proclivity | an inclination or predisposition toward something |
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| 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 |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |