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 |
|---|---|
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| swerve | to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course : deviate |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
| 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) |
| tome | book |
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |