GRE Word List
DECELERATE
to reduce the speed of : slow down
The meaning of the word decelerate is to reduce the speed of : slow down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |