GRE Word List
QUASH
to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely
The meaning of the word quash is to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| executor | one who executes something |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| scrupulous | having moral integrity : acting in strict regard for what is considered right or proper |
| disparity | a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| herald | an official at a tournament of arms (see arm |