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 |
|---|---|
| wont | accustomed |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| shove | to push along |
| odium | the state or fact of being subjected to hatred and contempt as a result of a despicable act or blameworthy circumstance |
| circlet | a little circle |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |