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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| porridge | a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| brooch | an ornament that is held by a pin or clasp and is worn at or near the neck |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| belated | delayed beyond the usual time |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |