GRE Word List
APOTHECARY
one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes
The meaning of the word apothecary is one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.
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| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
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| entail | to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
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| ramp | a sloping way or plane: such as |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| malefactor | one who commits an offense against the law |