GRE Word List
SALUTARY
producing a beneficial effect : remedial
The meaning of the word salutary is producing a beneficial effect : remedial.
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| acrimonious | angry and bitter : caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| ulcer | a break in skin or mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue, disintegration and necrosis of epithelial tissue, and often pus |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| methodical | arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |