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 |
|---|---|
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| unwieldy | not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) : cumbersome |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |