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 |
|---|---|
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| reconnaissance | a preliminary survey to gain information |
| carat | a unit of fineness for gold equal to ยน/โโ part of pure gold in an alloy |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |