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 |
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| etymology | the 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 |
| faculty | ability |
| addle | rotten |
| ductile | capable of being drawn out (see draw |
| feint | something feigned |
| astringent | causing a tightening of soft organic tissues : styptic |
| executor | one who executes something |
| adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| protract | to prolong in time or space : continue |