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 |
|---|---|
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| compulsive | having power to compel |
| resilient | characterized or marked by resilience: such as |
| stigma | a mark of shame or discredit : stain |
| dearth | scarcity that makes dear |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |