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 |
|---|---|
| fodder | something fed to domestic animals |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| reverberate | reflect |
| verbalize | to express something in words |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| nectar | the drink of the Greek and Roman gods |