GRE Word List
WHEEDLE
to influence or entice by soft words or flattery
The meaning of the word wheedle is to influence or entice by soft words or flattery.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| saline | consisting of or containing salt |
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |