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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| Word | Meaning |
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| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |
| substantiate | to give substance or form to : embody |