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 |
|---|---|
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| mediate | occupying a middle position |
| primp | to dress, adorn, or arrange in a careful or finicky manner |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |