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.
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| consolidation | the act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated |
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| potable | suitable for drinking |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| tablet | a flat slab or plaque suited for or bearing an inscription |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |