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 |
|---|---|
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| stem_from | arise from; originate from |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| writhe | to twist into coils or folds |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |