GRE Word List
HERMITAGE
the habitation of a hermit
The meaning of the word hermitage is the habitation of a hermit.
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| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
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| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |