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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prosperity | the condition of being successful or thriving |
circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
assay | to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components |
sober | not intoxicated |
sift | to put through a sieve |
agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
frock | an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit |
stygian | of or relating to the river Styx |