GRE Word List
BALMY
having the qualities of balm : soothing
The meaning of the word balmy is having the qualities of balm : soothing.
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| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| duration | continuance in time |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
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