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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| beatific | of, possessing, or imparting beatitude |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| heterodox | contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion : unorthodox |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |