GRE Word List
ANODYNE
serving to alleviate pain
The meaning of the word anodyne is serving to alleviate pain.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| encroachment | to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another |
| amnesty | the act of an authority (such as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| gazette | newspaper |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| rigor | harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |