GRE Word List
GOURMET
a connoisseur of food and drink
The meaning of the word gourmet is a connoisseur of food and drink.
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congenial | pleasant |
solicitor | one that solicits |
partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
protract | to prolong in time or space : continue |
vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
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