GRE Word List
ANODYNE
serving to alleviate pain
The meaning of the word anodyne is serving to alleviate pain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flick | a light sharp jerky stroke or movement |
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| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| infiltrate | to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes |
| paradigm | example |