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 |
|---|---|
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| transitory | of brief duration : temporary |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| 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 |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| ogle | to glance with amorous invitation or challenge |