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 |
|---|---|
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| rusticate | to go into or reside in the country : follow a rustic life |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |