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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| stumble | to fall into sin or waywardness |
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| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
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| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
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