GRE Word List
QUELL
to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity
The meaning of the word quell is to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity.
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|---|---|
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| jaunty | sprightly in manner or appearance : lively |
| cataclysm | flood |
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |
| quisling | traitor |
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