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 |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| founder | one that founds or establishes |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| flair | a skill or instinctive ability to appreciate or make good use of something : talent |
| repository | a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |