[Visual Vocabulary] Salve

[Sandesh Kumar Sodhi]

Pronunciation - Sav

Word meaning -
a medicinal ointment for healing or relieving wounds and sores.
In figurative sense it is used to describe anything that soothes, mollifies, or relieves.

Usage examples -

• Apply salve to the open wound.
  
• Seaside's 28-12 victory is salve for old wound.
• Aiming to salve the sting of college costs

Additional note -
Learn one more word -
Unguent
This word also means ointment for healing
Unguent comes from Latin unguentum, from unguere, "to anoint."



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Posted By Sandesh Kumar Sodhi to Visual Vocabulary at 12/04/2006 12:24:00 PM