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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
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| heed | to pay attention |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| vilify | to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
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| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |