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 |
|---|---|
| subsidiary | furnishing aid or support : auxiliary |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| malediction | curse |