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 |
|---|---|
| incoherent | lacking coherence: such as |
| fanfare | a short and lively sounding of trumpets |
| sherbet | a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice |
| intangible | not tangible : impalpable |
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| ape | any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |