GRE Word List
INSTIGATE
to goad or urge forward : provoke
The meaning of the word instigate is to goad or urge forward : provoke.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| maternal | of, relating to, belonging to, or characteristic of a mother : motherly |
| ploy | escapade |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |