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 |
|---|---|
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| stipulate | to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something : contract |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |