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 |
|---|---|
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| ventral | of or relating to the belly : abdominal |
| humble | not proud or haughty : not arrogant or assertive |
| incredulity | the quality or state of being incredulous : disbelief |
| raconteur | a person who excels in telling anecdotes |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| integrate | to form, coordinate, or blend into a functioning or unified whole : unite |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |