GRE Word List

AUXILIARY

offering or providing help

The meaning of the word auxiliary is offering or providing help.

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poulticea soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions
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vyingcontending; to strive for superiority
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replicateduplicate
mundaneof, relating to, or characteristic of the world
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virtuosoone who excels in the technique of an art
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