GRE Word List
ODORIFEROUS
yielding an odor : odorous
The meaning of the word odoriferous is yielding an odor : odorous.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |
| leave-taking | departure |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| sylvan | one that frequents groves or woods |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| haunt | to visit often : frequent |
| libidinous | having or marked by lustful desires : lascivious |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |