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 |
|---|---|
| adjacent | not distant : nearby |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| 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 |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| unique | being the only one : sole |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| sylvan | one that frequents groves or woods |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| precipitant | precipitate |