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 |
|---|---|
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| inestimable | incapable of being estimated or computed |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| ram | a male sheep |
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| writ | something written : writing |