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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| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| shove | to push along |
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |