GRE Word List
UNGUENT
a soothing or healing salve : ointment
The meaning of the word unguent is a soothing or healing salve : ointment.
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| rousing | giving rise to excitement : stirring |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
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| requite | to make return for : repay |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| meter | systematically arranged and measured rhythm (see rhythm |
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| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
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