GRE Word List
PROSELYTIZE
to induce someone to convert to one's faith
The meaning of the word proselytize is to induce someone to convert to one's faith.
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| incorporate | to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole |
| reimburse | to pay back to someone : repay |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| authoritative | having, marked by, or proceeding from authority |
| sidetrack | siding |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |