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 |
|---|---|
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| indisputable | not disputable : unquestionable |
| rigor | harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
| jubilation | an act of rejoicing : the state of being jubilant |
| carnage | the flesh of slain animals or humans |
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |