GRE Word List
SUPPLICANT
one who supplicates
The meaning of the word supplicant is one who supplicates.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| bequeath | to give or leave by will (see will |
| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |
| melee | a confused struggle |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |