GRE Word List
LUSCIOUS
having a delicious taste or smell : sweet
The meaning of the word luscious is having a delicious taste or smell : sweet.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| olfactory | of or relating to the sense of smell |
| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| champion | a winner of first prize or first place in competition |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| reputable | enjoying good repute : held in esteem |
| vindictive | disposed to seek revenge : vengeful |
| lumber | to move ponderously |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |