GRE Word List
OPIATE
medicine to induce sleep or deaden pain; something that relieves emotions or causes inaction; sleep-producing drug containing opium
The meaning of the word opiate is medicine to induce sleep or deaden pain; something that relieves emotions or causes inaction; sleep-producing drug containing opium.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ruddy | reddish; (of the face) reddish and healthy-looking |
| fledgling | inexperienced; N: young bird that has acquired wing feathers and is learning to fly; inexperienced person |
| meddlesome | interfering; V. meddle: interfere |
| spatial | relating to space |
| jocund | merry |
| prostrate | stretch out full on ground; make prostrate; enervate; Ex. prostrating illness; ADJ: lying face down; having lost all strength |
| curtail | shorten; reduce |
| dull | (of colors or surfaces) not bright; cloudy; overcast; boring; (of edge or sound) not sharp; not rapid; sluggish; slow in thinking and understanding; stupid; V. |
| impiety | irreverence; lack of respect for God or piety |
| beatific | giving or showing bliss; blissful |
