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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |