GRE Word List
ALLEVIATE
relieve
The meaning of the word alleviate is relieve.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |
| foible | the part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| bliss | complete happiness |