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 |
|---|---|
| heckler | one who heckles someone (such as a performer or speaker) usually by shouting criticisms or insults |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| plait | pleat |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| 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) |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |