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 |
|---|---|
| unruly | not readily ruled, disciplined, or managed |
| amok | an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures |
| 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 |
| scavenge | to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
| billow | wave |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| aviary | a place for keeping birds confined |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |