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 |
|---|---|
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| trinket | a small ornament (such as a jewel or ring) |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| forebears | ancestor |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |