GRE Word List
POULTICE
a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions
The meaning of the word poultice is a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| gerrymander | the act or method of gerrymandering |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| inordinate | exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate |
| trenchant | keen |
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |