GRE Word List
INSTIGATE
to goad or urge forward : provoke
The meaning of the word instigate is to goad or urge forward : provoke.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| ejaculation | an act of ejaculating |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |