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).
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| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
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| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
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| alias | otherwise called : otherwise known as |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
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