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 |
|---|---|
| predetermine | foreordain |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| pundit | pandit |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |