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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Word | Meaning |
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insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
enervate | lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated |
dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
mirage | an optical (see optical |
revert | to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject) |
patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
palatial | of, relating to, or being a palace |
lectern | a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker |