GRE Word List
SLAKE
subside
The meaning of the word slake is subside.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |
| inestimable | incapable of being estimated or computed |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| repeal | to rescind or annul by authoritative act |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |