GRE Word List
ALLEVIATE
relieve
The meaning of the word alleviate is relieve.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| miscreant | unbelieving |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| sadistic | of, relating to, or characterized by sadism |