GRE Word List
INVOCATION
the act or process of petitioning for help or support
The meaning of the word invocation is the act or process of petitioning for help or support.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tract | a system of body parts or organs that act together to perform some function |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| resolution | the act or process of resolving: such as |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |
| parchment | the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |