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 |
|---|---|
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |