GRE Word List
ANODYNE
serving to alleviate pain
The meaning of the word anodyne is serving to alleviate pain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disquietude | anxiety |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| totter | to move unsteadily : stagger |
| libel | a written statement in which a plaintiff in certain courts sets forth the cause of action or the relief sought |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| zealot | a zealous person |