GRE Word List

OSTENSIBLE

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WordMeaning
citeto call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court)
unguenta soothing or healing salve : ointment
loatheto dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : detest
charany of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots
munificentvery liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow
lucrativeproducing wealth : profitable
metaphora figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money)
minatoryhaving a menacing quality
incarnationthe act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate
gourmeta connoisseur of food and drink