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 |
|---|---|
| faculty | ability |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| awe | an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| browbeat | to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech : bully |
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| repartee | a quick and witty reply |