GRE Word List

INVOKE

to petition for help or support

The meaning of the word invoke is to petition for help or support.

Random words

WordMeaning
cavaliermarked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain
brawnymuscular
gauntexcessively thin and angular
sunderto break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space
lotan object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with
contaminateto soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association
divestto deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title
couriermessenger
verbiagea profusion of words usually of little or obscure content
declivitydownward inclination