GRE Word List
PALLIATE
ease pain (without curing); make less severe or offensive (a crime or illness)
The meaning of the word palliate is ease pain (without curing); make less severe or offensive (a crime or illness).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impiety | irreverence; lack of respect for God or piety |
| roster | list (of names) |
| grouse | complain; fuss; grumble; grouch; N: plump chickenlike game bird |
| encumber | burden; N. encumbrance |
| fester | rankle; produce irritation or resentment; (of a cut or wound) generate pus or rot; Ex. His insult festered in my mind for days. |
| germinate | cause to sprout; sprout |
| sonnet | 14-line poetic verse form with a fixed rhyme pattern |
| humus | substance or rich soil formed by decaying vegetable matter; CF. soil |
| freebooter | pirate or plunderer who makes war in order to grow rich |
| apoplexy | stroke; loss of consciousness caused by too much blood in the brain |
