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 |
|---|---|
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| ecstasy | a state of overwhelming emotion |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| fluster | to put into a state of agitated confusion : upset |
| buoyant | having buoyancy |