GRE Word List
ANODYNE
serving to alleviate pain
The meaning of the word anodyne is serving to alleviate pain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |
| license | permission to act |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| incriminate | to charge with or show evidence or proof of involvement in a crime or fault |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |