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.

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WordMeaning
didacticdesigned or intended to teach
tenurethe act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office)
entailto impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
siblingsib
warpa series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft
remitto lay aside (a mood or disposition) partly or wholly
centrifugalproceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis
vetoan authoritative prohibition : interdiction
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
practicablecapable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible