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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| scheme | a plan or program of action |
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| incoherent | lacking coherence: such as |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |