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 |
|---|---|
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| headlong | headfirst |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |