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 |
|---|---|
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| opus | work |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| tureen | a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |