GRE Word List
SUPPLICATE
to make a humble entreaty
The meaning of the word supplicate is to make a humble entreaty.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |
| leeway | an allowable margin of freedom or variation : tolerance |
| dearth | scarcity that makes dear |
| healthful | beneficial to health of body or mind |
| misogynist | a person who hates or discriminates against women : a misogynistic person |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| carnage | the flesh of slain animals or humans |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |