GRE Word List
NOSTRUM
a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness
The meaning of the word nostrum is a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| sibling | sib |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| subtlety | the quality or state of being subtle |
| buoyant | having buoyancy |