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 |
|---|---|
| indolent | averse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition : appease |
| assurance | the state of being assured: such as |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |