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 |
|---|---|
| inveigle | to win over by wiles : entice |
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| wry | twist |
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| jaundice | yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |