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 |
|---|---|
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| scion | descendant |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| limn | to draw or paint on a surface |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
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