GRE Word List
APPEASE
pacify
The meaning of the word appease is pacify.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| entomology | a branch of zoology that deals with insects |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |