GRE Word List
RETRENCH
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| auxiliary | offering or providing help |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| appease | pacify |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
| amulet | a charm (such as an ornament) often inscribed with a magic incantation or symbol to aid the wearer or protect against evil (such as disease or witchcraft) |