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 |
|---|---|
| rarefied | being less dense |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| plight | to put or give in pledge : engage |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| nourish | nurture |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| remission | the act or process of remitting |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |