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 |
|---|---|
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| civil | of or relating to citizens |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| evenhanded | fair |
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| clot | a portion of a substance adhering together in a thick nondescript mass (as of clay or gum) |
| disingenuous | lacking in candor |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |