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 |
|---|---|
| obituary | a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| ulcer | a break in skin or mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue, disintegration and necrosis of epithelial tissue, and often pus |
| convene | to come together in a body |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |