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 |
|---|---|
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| vixen | a female fox |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |