GRE Word List
CONCILIATORY
intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate
The meaning of the word conciliatory is intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| fervent | very hot : glowing |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |