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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| defer | put off |