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 |
|---|---|
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| nourish | nurture |
| inebriated | exhilarated or confused by or as if by alcohol : intoxicated |
| quench | put out |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |