GRE Word List
INVOKE
to petition for help or support
The meaning of the word invoke is to petition for help or support.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| subsidy | a grant or gift of money: such as |
| rummage | to make a thorough search or investigation |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| offhand | without premeditation or preparation : extempore |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |