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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| atypical | not typical : irregular |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| serrated | notched or toothed on the edge |
| airy | of or relating to air : atmospheric |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |