GRE Word List

OLFACTORY

of or relating to the sense of smell

The meaning of the word olfactory is of or relating to the sense of smell.

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caulkto stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe)
pronouncedstrongly marked : decided
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filibusteran irregular military adventurer
aberrationthe fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state
copiousyielding something abundantly
soliloquythe act of talking to oneself
languiddrooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak
severto put or keep apart : divide
phariseea member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law