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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| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| sound | a particular auditory impression : tone |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| chary | discreetly cautious: such as |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |