GRE Word List
SEDUCE
to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty
The meaning of the word seduce is to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |