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 |
|---|---|
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| swill | wash |
| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| tablet | a flat slab or plaque suited for or bearing an inscription |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |