GRE Word List
ANODYNE
serving to alleviate pain
The meaning of the word anodyne is serving to alleviate pain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| melee | a confused struggle |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| guise | a form or style of dress : costume |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |