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 |
|---|---|
| forthcoming | being about to appear or to be produced or made available |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| executive | of or relating to the execution of the laws and the conduct of public and national affairs |
| delirium | an acute (see acute |
| voyeur | someone who obtains sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |