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.
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|---|---|
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| toll | a tax or fee paid for some liberty or privilege (as of passing over a highway or bridge) |
| scrupulous | having moral integrity : acting in strict regard for what is considered right or proper |
| ingrained | forming a part of the essence or inmost being : deep-seated |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |
| omnipotent | almighty |
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |