GRE Word List
SOLACE
to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console
The meaning of the word solace is to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| adherent | one who adheres to something: such as |
| poignancy | the quality or state of being poignant |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |