GRE Word List
PLAINTIVE
expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy
The meaning of the word plaintive is expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| calorific | caloric |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |
| cater | to provide a supply of food |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| sanction | a formal decree |