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 |
|---|---|
| carapace | a bony or chitinous case or shield covering the back or part of the back of an animal (such as a turtle or crab) |
| snuffle | to snuff or sniff usually audibly and repeatedly |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| exhale | to rise or be given off as vapor |
| swarthy | of a dark color, complexion, or cast |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| bauble | trinket |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| breed | to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation |
| antiseptic | opposing microbial infection |