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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vindicate | to free from allegation or blame |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| resign | relegate |