GRE Word List
MITIGATE
to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify
The meaning of the word mitigate is to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incinerate | to cause to burn to ashes |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| poise | balance |
| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| ashen | of, relating to, or made from ash wood |
| fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |