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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WordMeaning
affectedartificial; pretended
wiltloose freshness; droop
jocosegiven to joking : merry
hivea container for housing honeybees
charany of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots
syllogisma 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")
vertexthe top of the head
correlationthe state or relation of being correlated
effectualproducing or able to produce a desired effect
queruloushabitually complaining