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 |
|---|---|
| muted | being mute : silent |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| upright | perpendicular |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |
| vantage | a position giving a strategic advantage, commanding perspective, or comprehensive view |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |