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 |
|---|---|
| query | question |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| repartee | a quick and witty reply |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| mulct | fine |