GRE Word List
BUXOM
vigorously or healthily plump
The meaning of the word buxom is vigorously or healthily plump.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| rally | to muster for a common purpose |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |