GRE Word List

EMOLLIENT

making soft or supple

The meaning of the word emollient is making soft or supple.

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WordMeaning
embezzlementto appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
dregssediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate
nomadicof, relating to, or characteristic of nomads
postulatedemand
palatialof, relating to, or being a palace
gibberishunintelligible or meaningless language:
bloatedoverfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc.
tentativenot fully worked out or developed
defunctno longer living, existing, or functioning
ruminateto go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly