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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| mote | a small particle : speck |
| lottery | a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance |
| touchstone | a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis |
| fuddle | booze |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |