GRE Word List
PALLIATE
to reduce the violence of (a disease)
The meaning of the word palliate is to reduce the violence of (a disease).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gastronomy | the art or science of good eating |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| adorn | to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| condole | grieve |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |