GRE Word List
PALL
to lose strength or effectiveness
The meaning of the word pall is to lose strength or effectiveness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lackadaisical | lacking life, spirit, or zest : languid |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| blush | outward appearance : view |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |