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 |
|---|---|
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| redolent | exuding fragrance : aromatic |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| poignancy | the quality or state of being poignant |
| intrigue | the practice of engaging in secret schemes |
| carnage | the flesh of slain animals or humans |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |