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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| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
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| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |
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| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| query | question |