GRE Word List
ALLAY
to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate
The meaning of the word allay is to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| usage | firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure |
| fastidious | showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |
| energize | to make energetic, vigorous, or active |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| unequivocal | leaving no doubt : clear |