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

WordMeaning
ostensibleintended for display : open to view
adherentone who adheres to something: such as
complicityassociation or participation in or as if in a wrongful act
filialof, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter
maleficentworking or productive of harm or evil : baleful
hermeticof or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d.
minusculevery small
flightyswift
carnalrelating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites
atrocitya shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation