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 |
|---|---|
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| entail | to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| amulet | a charm (such as an ornament) often inscribed with a magic incantation or symbol to aid the wearer or protect against evil (such as disease or witchcraft) |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |