GRE Word List
PRURIENT
having or causing lustful desires and thoughts; arousing immoderate sexual desire
The meaning of the word prurient is having or causing lustful desires and thoughts; arousing immoderate sexual desire.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| misogamy | hatred of marriage |
| jaunt | trip; short journey |
| probe | explore with a probe or tools; investigate; N: slender instrument used to explore a wound or body cavity; device designed to investigate an unknown region; thorough investigation; Ex. space probe |
| sublimate | refine; purify; replace (natural urges) with socially acceptable activities; change between a solid state and a gaseous state |
| clot | half-solid lump formed from a liquid (or blood); V. |
| career | rush wildly; go at full speed |
| orgy | wild drunken revelry; unrestrained indulgence in an activity; Ex. orgy of shopping |
| litotes | understatement for emphasis; Ex. ``not bad(=pretty good)'' |
| draught | current of air (through a room or to a fire); act of pulling roads; act of swallowing liquid or amount of liquid swallowed at a time |
| connubial | pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state |
