GRE Word List
UNGUENT
a soothing or healing salve : ointment
The meaning of the word unguent is a soothing or healing salve : ointment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| humane | marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals |
| potentate | ruler |
| lumber | to move ponderously |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| befuddle | to muddle or stupefy with or as if with drink |
| din | a loud continued noise |
| quisling | traitor |
| forward | near, being at, or belonging to the forepart |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |