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 |
|---|---|
| ostensible | intended for display : open to view |
| adherent | one who adheres to something: such as |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| filial | of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| minuscule | very small |
| flighty | swift |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |