GRE Word List
PRURIENT
marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire
The meaning of the word prurient is marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| jocose | given to joking : merry |
| hive | a container for housing honeybees |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| querulous | habitually complaining |