GRE Word List
LUSH
growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage
The meaning of the word lush is growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| voyeur | someone who obtains sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| incense | material used to produce a fragrant odor when burned |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |