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 |
|---|---|
| bemoan | to express deep grief or distress over |
| postulate | demand |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| diorama | a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening |
| satyr | a sylvan deity in Greek mythology having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian revelry |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |