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suppliant[adjective]

Entry Word: suppliant

Function: adjective

Meaning: asking humbly <the suppliant student pleaded for a second chance>

Synonyms beseeching, entreating, imploring, pleading, prayerful, soliciting, supplicant, supplicating

Related Words importunate, insistent, persistent

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