GRE Word List
EPICURE
one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine
The meaning of the word epicure is one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impugn | to assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity |
| appease | pacify |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |