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 |
|---|---|
| onus | burden |
| exhale | to rise or be given off as vapor |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| exigency | that which is required in a particular situation |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |