GRE Word List
SUPPLICATE
petition humbly; pray to grant a favor
The meaning of the word supplicate is petition humbly; pray to grant a favor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| legato | (of music) played smoothly |
| verbatim | word for word; in the same words; repeating the actual words exactly |
| marital | pertaining to marriage |
| traumatic | (of an experience) deeply shocking; pertaining to an injury caused by violence; N. trauma: serious wound; emotional shock that causes lasting psychological damage |
| seedy | run-down; decrepit; disreputable; having many seeds; Ex. seedy downtown hotel |
| modish | fashionable; conforming to the current fashion |
| disband | dissolve; disperse; (of a group) break up and separate; Ex. The club has disbanded. |
| contortions | twistings; distortions; V. contort: twist violently out of shape; CF. contortionist |
| discomfit | frustrate; put to rout; defeat; disconcert; embarrass; perturb |
| defeatist | resigned to defeat or failure; accepting defeat or failure as a natural outcome; N. CF. defeatism |
