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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etymologythe 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
facultyability
addlerotten
ductilecapable of being drawn out (see draw
feintsomething feigned
astringentcausing a tightening of soft organic tissues : styptic
executorone who executes something
adhereto hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing
convictionthe act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law
protractto prolong in time or space : continue