GRE Word List
SLAKE
subside
The meaning of the word slake is subside.
Random words
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expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |
paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |
infirmity | the quality or state of being infirm |
impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
degradation | the act or process of degrading |
arid | excessively dry |
explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |