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 |
|---|---|
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |