GRE Word List
EMOLLIENT
making soft or supple
The meaning of the word emollient is making soft or supple.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| novelty | something new or unusual |
| grill | to broil on a grill |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| glutinous | having the quality of glue : gummy |