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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urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
transgression | an act, process, or instance of transgressing: such as |
litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
agape | wide open : gaping |
begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
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