GRE Word List
SLAKE
subside
The meaning of the word slake is subside.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| melee | a confused struggle |
| judiciary | a system of courts of law |
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| skim | to clear (a liquid) of scum or floating substance |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |