GRE Word List
AMOROUS
strongly moved by love and especially sexual love
The meaning of the word amorous is strongly moved by love and especially sexual love.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| lag | one that lags or is last |