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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fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
rummage | to make a thorough search or investigation |
exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
waif | a stray person or animal |
plebiscite | a vote by which the people of an entire country or district express an opinion for or against a proposal especially on a choice of government or ruler |
misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
lithe | easily bent or flexed |