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 |
|---|---|
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| nether | situated down or below : lower |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| random | a haphazard course |