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 |
|---|---|
| commonplace | commonly found or seen : ordinary |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| aver | to declare positively |
| lunar | crescent |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| regime | regimen |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |