GRE Word List
EMOLLIENT
making soft or supple
The meaning of the word emollient is making soft or supple.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ensconce | shelter |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| mischance | bad luck |