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 |
|---|---|
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| buoyant | having buoyancy |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| eventual | contingent |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |