GRE Word List
ALLEVIATE
relieve
The meaning of the word alleviate is relieve.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| dolt | a stupid person |
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| clout | a piece of cloth or leather : rag |
| smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |
| outlandish | of or relating to another country : foreign |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| pastoral | of, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen |