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 |
|---|---|
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| candor | unreserved, honest, or sincere expression : forthrightness |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| singular | of or relating to a separate person or thing : individual |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| rampant | rearing upon the hind legs with forelegs extended |